Vintage Editorial Portrait

Create a highly realistic vertical editorial portrait using the uploaded user photo as the ONLY source of the subject’s identity. Preserve the user’s exact recognizable facial identity and natural appearance: facial structure, proportions, face shape, forehead, eyebrows, eyes, nose, lips, jawline, cheeks, chin, skin tone, natural skin texture, hairline, and all distinctive facial characteristics. Do not copy or resemble the reference person’s identity. Do not beautify, reshape, slim, age, de-age, feminize, masculinize, or otherwise reinterpret the user’s face. The user’s gender and identity must remain completely unchanged. The uploaded user photo provides WHO THE PERSON IS; the reference image provides HOW that person appears in the scene.
Recreate the reference composition as closely as possible: a vertically framed 9:16 seated fashion portrait, photographed from a close-to-medium distance at approximately eye level with a natural portrait perspective. The subject sits facing generally toward the camera, with the upper body centered and filling most of the frame. One knee/leg is raised and crossed prominently into the lower foreground, creating a large curved denim shape across the bottom portion of the image. The torso remains upright but relaxed. One arm is bent upward, with the hand gently supporting the side of the face/cheek; fingers rest naturally along the cheek and jaw area. Reproduce the exact relaxed hand placement, arm position, shoulder posture, seated posture, leg positioning, and overall body orientation from the reference.
The subject looks directly into the camera with a calm, confident, slightly contemplative expression. Reconstruct the reference expression rather than the expression in the uploaded identity photo: relaxed eyes, natural eyebrows, closed relaxed lips, subtle thoughtful mood, no broad smile, no exaggerated emotion. The eyes must look directly toward the camera lens. Keep the head in the same nearly frontal orientation and subtle natural tilt shown in the reference, while preserving the user’s own facial proportions and identity.
Dress the user in the same overall styling as the reference: a dark brown/charcoal plaid tailored blazer with a subtle vintage check pattern, structured lapels, long sleeves, and natural fabric texture; underneath, a simple fitted off-white/cream top. Add relaxed light-wash blue denim jeans with realistic faded texture and visible stitching. Recreate the accessories: layered delicate gold necklaces, including a small pendant necklace, chunky gold hoop earrings, a subtle ear cuff/piercing detail, and understated rings on the hand resting against the cheek. Keep accessories naturally proportioned and photorealistic.
Recreate the reference environment: a warm dark brown/taupe textured studio or interior background with a slightly distressed, vintage photographic surface. The background should remain simple and unobtrusive, with no modern objects or distracting scenery. Use warm muted brown, beige, charcoal, cream, and faded denim tones throughout the composition.
Lighting should match the reference: soft but directional warm studio lighting illuminating the face and upper body, with gentle highlights along the hair and cheekbones and controlled shadows around the jaw, blazer, and background. Preserve natural skin texture and realistic facial detail rather than overly smooth skin. Add subtle warm film grain, fine photographic noise, slight faded contrast, delicate vignette, and a vintage analog/editorial character. Hair should be styled similarly in overall shape and volume to the reference—long, voluminous, softly wavy hair framing the face and extending around the shoulders—while still naturally adapting to the user’s own hair characteristics and identity rather than copying another person’s identity.
Use realistic photographic proportions, natural anatomy, believable hands and fingers, authentic fabric texture, detailed denim, realistic jewelry reflections, shallow-to-moderate depth of field, and crisp focus primarily on the user’s face and eyes. Preserve the large foreground leg perspective and natural camera proximity without distorting the face. Maintain the exact visual hierarchy and framing of the reference: face in the upper-middle area, hand against cheek beside the face, blazer occupying the middle frame, and crossed denim-clad leg dominating the lower foreground.
Final image should look like a professionally photographed vintage fashion/editorial portrait, photorealistic, cinematic, warm, intimate, refined, slightly nostalgic, with subtle aged-film texture. Do not add text, logos, watermark, extra people, unnecessary props, or unrelated objects. Do not change the reference composition into a different pose or camera angle. Highest priority: preserve the uploaded user’s exact identity; then reproduce the reference expression, direct gaze, head pose, body pose, clothing, composition, lighting, and vintage editorial aesthetic as accurately as possible.

Copy the complete prompt and use your own reference photos where requested.